Week 7 - Tues. - Josh

Week 7
Lakeview Wesleyan Church
Rev. Brad Terhune 2/22/09

Church conflict story:
A youth pastor was on his way to a concert when he came across a road block. That entire side of the interstate was blocked, leaving them with nowhere to go. Most of the traffic was going across the median to the exit on the other side. Now the youth pastor new that this exit would take him to the concert, so he decided to do what the rest of traffic was doing. As the Pastor when across the median in the van with fifteen kids on board, it got stuck in the mud. So he called for a wrecker to pull them out and sent the fifteen kids and two sponsors up the exit to wait at a restaurant. The wrecker got the van pulled out and they load the kids back up and headed out.
The next week the youth pastor told the senior pastor what had transpired over the weekend. The youth pastor paid for the wrecker himself since he felt it was his own doing that got them stuck. So the issue was resolved. I few weeks later a trustee was doing maintenance on the van and found mud stuck under the front bumper. He got very upset about this and wrote a report to the church board about how people are abusing church property. This created conflict between the trustees, the senior pastor, the board, and the youth pastor.